[1547]. Sch. Aristoph. Vesp. 1116. Acharn. 1177. In the Æolian islands the vines are supported on a frame-work of poles and trees, over which they spread themselves with extraordinary luxuriance. Spallanzani, iv. 99.

[1548]. Sch. Aristoph. Pac. 1262.

[1549]. Virg. Georg. 408, seq.

[1550]. Which were pruned in January (Geop. iii. 1), and esteemed the most useful, iv. 1. The solidest and hardest vines were thought to bear the least fruit. Theoph. Hist. Plant. v. 4. 1. Cf. Chandler, i. 98.

[1551]. Dem. in Nicostrat. § 5.

[1552].

“Vitem viduas ducit ad arbores.”

Hor. Carm. iv. 5. 30.

[1553]. Virg. Georg. ii. 361, seq. An amictâ vitibus ulmo. Hor. Epist. i. 16. 3.

[1554]. Pashley, Travels, ii. 22. The oak is now used for the same purpose in Asia Minor. Chandler, i. 114.